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Staff monitoring must be transparent
News Monitoring at Work, launched today to tell companies how to deal with the information they accumulate while monitoring their employees, is substantially shorter and much clearer than the preceding version of the code.
[June 11, 2003, 10:49]
Monitoring staff: What the latest code of practice means
Talkback I have just been threatened with losing my job - when one my bosses started reading my email and found an email from a client suggesting I might join their company and read my response saying I would consider it for the future.
[November 7, 2003, 14:41]
Covert staff surveillance 'illegal'
News Furthermore, covert monitoring of staff is only likely to be legal if a specific criminal activity has been identified and covert monitoring has to be used to obtain evidence, but explaining this to the staff might make that difficult.
[April 9, 2002, 14:28]
Do you outsource your snooping?
News The big question is whether to use in-house staff to do the monitoring. More enterprises are using Internet monitoring and filtering software to track their employees' online destinations. IDC numbers showed similar results: 51% of the companies...
[August 7, 2002, 12:11]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
News Union chiefs in the UK are today urging the new information commissioner to resist employer lobbying and publish the delayed code of practice on the monitoring of staff email and Internet use. It also provides clear guidance on how the Data...
[January 9, 2003, 10:05]
One in five employers snoop on staff email
News The survey carried out by consultant firm KPMG's legal arm KLegal found 20 percent of employers are breaking the law by secretly monitoring emails without informing their staff. The issue of email monitoring resurfaced this month when 70 staff were...
[January 17, 2001, 12:10]
Automating Storage Management With Symantec Storage Solution
White Papers Freed from the mundane tasks of monitoring and reallocating storage volumes, HAP's IT staff has more time for high-value projects. At the same time, HAP is realizing tangible business value, including a 12 percent lower storage total cost of...
[August 26, 2006, 0:00]
Monitoring Heterogeneous IT Landscapes: A Guide for SMBs
White Papers That question is the subject of this IBM white paper, which describes how IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express, an asset in the IBM Express Portfolio, provides broad visibility into the entire IT landscape -- one that enables a small staff to easily...
[December 4, 2006, 14:24]
Bosses to block Big Brother video streams
News Bosses have become increasingly confused on the issue of monitoring staff Internet usage, with many companies failing to have an Internet policy in place. It's a legal minefield at the moment -- RIPA and the Human Rights Act have only confused the...
[May 24, 2001, 12:26]
Web bigger malware threat than email
News Instead, the company recommends closer monitoring of staff Internet use, using tools that give management an overview of time spent and behaviour patterns online. It can certainly be done in such a way that it does not constitute outright...
[September 15, 2006, 10:30]
Linux snares security tool
News Given the current debate surrounding staff-monitoring, Purdie was quick to point out that InterSect Alliance is not responsible, nor accountable for, any privacy infringements occuring as a result of organisations using this system.
[November 7, 2001, 14:51]
Surveillance: Net surfing could get you sacked
News While the TUC (Trade Union Congress) is not opposed to the idea of monitoring staff at work, it does feel a clear distinction needs to be drawn between monitoring and spying. For trade unions, monitoring of employees raises issues of privacy at work.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Council workers shown the door over Web abuse
News The individuals, who all work for Wirral Council's young offenders team, were removed from their duties last week after routine monitoring of employees' web use revealed those concerned had breached the council's guidelines on appropriate internet...
[October 28, 2002, 17:14]
U.S. backs off private monitoring
News The document outlining details of the plan says the FIDNET monitoring system would cover "critical government and ultimately private-sector information. In spite of assurances from government officials that any monitoring would be largely automated...
[July 29, 1999, 10:53]
Companies increasingly monitoring email
News The study comes amid a rise in workplace monitoring. That earlier study also found that 51 percent of the companies surveyed use video monitoring to counter theft, violence and sabotage, up from 33 percent in 2001.
[June 9, 2005, 12:40]
Tax credits site to stay closed after fraud
News Sarah Walker, director of benefits and tax credits at HMRC, said the department took the approach of monitoring the website closely for signs of fraud. We were trying to strike a balance all the time between making the system as accessible as we...
[March 20, 2007, 9:51]
WhatsUp Gold v12 Premium Edition review
Reviews The software provides standards-based monitoring of any network device, service or application on TCP/IP and Windows networks; it will discover devices on the network, initiate monitoring of those devices and execute actions based on device state...
[July 29, 2008, 15:48]
UK dot-com ad spending down
News Advertising spending by UK dot-com companies has fallen for the first time in years according to figures to be released by media monitoring firm ACNielsen MMS next week. Figures from ACNielsen MMS will show that for the month of November...
[January 11, 2001, 12:13]
Gloom as Intel closes Cambridge lab
News Work at the labs has included the development of Intel's Xen virtual machine monitor, the Continuous Monitoring (CoMo) network monitoring software and research into wireless networking and ubiquitous computing.
[October 30, 2006, 15:19]
Digital map of Web to track employees
News She is concerned that it may conflict with the new Data Protection draft on the use of personal data in employer/employee relationships by monitoring sensitive personal data. The draft reads: "Any monitoring must be a proportionate response to the...
[October 20, 2000, 14:22]
